Any way to “reboot” the JVM?

Question

Is there any way to reboot the JVM? As in don\'t actually exit, but close and reload all classes, and run main from the top?

Answer 1

Your best bet is probably to run the java interpreter within a loop, and just exit. For example:

#!/bin/sh
while true
do
    java MainClass
done

If you want the ability to reboot or shutdown entirely, you could test the exit status:

#!/bin/sh
STATUS=0
while [ $STATUS -eq 0 ]
do
    java MainClass
    STATUS=$?
done

Within the java program, you can use System.exit(0) to indicate that you want to "reboot," and System.exit(1) to indicate that you want to stop and stay stopped.